Taxation Timeline - Kacie Joeng, Suah Kim

Timeline created by Kacie Joeng
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    Treaty of Paris was signed by the Kingdom of Britain, France, and Spain after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the war.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    A law that attempted to control the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the tax rate and forcing the collection of duties.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    An act that British Parliament ordering local governments of the American colonies to give the British soldiers with housing and food.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    An act which accompanied the cancellation of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. Also known as, American colonies Act
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Were a series of British acts of Parliament. The Townshend act required an indirect tax on the colonists that he called duties.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred in Massachusetts. Colonists dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
  • Coercive Act

    Coercive Act
    The Coercive Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their rebellion in the Boston Tea Party.
  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War
    Was a war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence in 1776 as the United States of America